We are OK with Gionta making 5 mil just about as OK we are with trading Gomez for Mcdonaugh...not much we can do about past mistakes.

So how do you right the ship? Just keep piling on bad contracts from past precedence?

If you wanted to low-ball Price, we should have kept Halak. That's not the case, he has all the leverage in the world, he'll get at least 7mil a year... and you're obliged to sign him or massively fail for 5+ years.

I repeat a lot of posters here will be shocked by the numbers of Price's next contract.

He might be a RFA, but he can sit out... and he's known to be patient (just remember how long it took to negociate his last contract).

Anyways... the cap goes up, so it's not as scary as it could have been.

7 Million per is about right! Just because Gomez & Gionta are on the roster doesn't mean Montreal should low ball their actual best players!

Price should command a great contract but I think 7 Million is crazy. He has proven nothing so far. We like the guy and he's great but let's keep our feet on the ground. 6 million is the right number because he is easily a Top 5 goalie. But going beyond that is nuts.

If you wanted to low-ball Price, we should have kept Halak. That's not the case, he has all the leverage in the world, he'll get at least 7mil a year... and you're obliged to sign him or massively fail for 5+ years.

I repeat a lot of posters here will be shocked by the numbers of Price's next contract.

He might be a RFA, but he can sit out... and he's known to be patient (just remember how long it took to negociate his last contract).

Anyways... the cap goes up, so it's not as scary as it could have been.

He doesn't have all the leverage, it would go to arbitration and he would get less than that over the first year.

I think both sides want a long term deal and Price's camp will give a bit...I see 6 or 7 years and years at 6-6.5, this makes a lot of sense for both sides. 6 years and 37-38 mil or 7 years and 43-44 mil.

Price should command a great contract but I think 7 Million is crazy. He has proven nothing so far. We like the guy and he's great but let's keep our feet on the ground. 6 million is the right number because he is easily a Top 5 goalie. But going beyond that is nuts.

He's Top 5 on pure talent, but you don't pay on talent alone. I mean 7 million? On a 27th overall team?

How is the fact the rest of the team is bad Price's problem?

If anything it makes it MORE expensive to keep a star player on a losing roster and not less. Not sure where you logic is coming from... "Hey Price's agent... we know he is a star player... but our team sucks so we think he should play for less than market value because we are bad at our jobs"

... actually come to think of it, that is exactly what the league does with the NHLPA... so maybe it is not that far fetched.

The two sentences that came out of the same post... Price is a top 5 goalie and $7 million is ridiculous make no sense.

A top 5 goalie is worth $7 million and that is what they are getting now. So either he is not a top 5 guy or someone doesn't have a good grasp of what players cost.

Here's a list of 22 goalies. Why don't you pick the 4 others that are better than/ equal to Price. I'd like to see who you leave behind. Price is a very good goalie but he isn't the only game in town.

Lundqvist, Thomas, Ward, Rinne, Quick are the only ones who'd give me pause. Brodeur, Kipper and Luongo, are much more proven but I'd rather Price. Fleury, Halak, Elliot, Hiller, Varlamov are inconsistent in my opinion (the STL players need to prove it again next year). Bernier is hype. Letohnen, Smith, Backstrom, Howard, Rask... I just don't rate as better than Price.

Lundqvist, Thomas, Ward, Rinne, Quick are the only ones who'd give me pause. Brodeur, Kipper and Luongo, are much more proven but I'd rather Price. Fleury, Halak, Elliot, Hiller, Varlamov are inconsistent in my opinion (the STL players need to prove it again next year). Bernier is hype. Letohnen, Smith, Backstrom, Howard, Rask... I just don't rate as better than Price.

I don't think that Jonas Hiller is inconsistent, the guy came back from inujuries...1 average season doesn't make him inconsistent. Same thing with Halak, he had one average season because of injuries and adapting to a new team. Rask is a very good goalie also who wasn't rushed. Backstrom is also a strong goalie who's getting older but gets the job done. I wouldn't mind having any these goalies.

I don't think that Jonas Hiller is inconsistent, the guy came back from inujuries...1 average season doesn't make him inconsistent. Same thing with Halak, he had one average season because of injuries and adapting to a new team. Rask is a very good goalie also who wasn't rushed. Backstrom is also a strong goalie who's getting older but gets the job done. I wouldn't mind having any these goalies.

Price does not have the stats to get one cent over 6 million per, plain and simple people. He is not a top 5 goalie in the league, top 10 maybe. Anyone disagrees please provide stats showing different.

I wouldn't take any of them over Price since he still has a lot more to offer but the gap isn't huge between them and Price. If Price gets his 6m + then I would be more then happy to have the goalies that I mentioned and never look back since they earn far less then what Price might get and that salary doesn't justify that gap in talent between him and the guys I mentioned minus Backstrom.

If you wanted to low-ball Price, we should have kept Halak. That's not the case, he has all the leverage in the world, he'll get at least 7mil a year... and you're obliged to sign him or massively fail for 5+ years.

I repeat a lot of posters here will be shocked by the numbers of Price's next contract.

He might be a RFA, but he can sit out... and he's known to be patient (just remember how long it took to negociate his last contract).

Anyways... the cap goes up, so it's not as scary as it could have been.

alright , let's wait and see how that statement looks in a couple of weeks. I mean the cap hit is all that matters and I think its going to be 5m to 5.5m per ... if you think they are working a LONG TERM DEAL with a cap hit of 7m++++ I must strongly disagree.